Quotes by Subject: Risk
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. | |||
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. | * | ||
Fate loves the fearless. | * | ||
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. | |||
I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. | |||
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. | |||
People are feeling really wounded because they bought stocks at 100 times revenues, and they can't understand why their life's savings is gone. People, get a grip! Look at what you did! 'Hey, that truck hit me!' Well, you play in the freeway, you are going to get hit by a truck. | |||
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. | |||
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? | |||
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. | |||
In a fight of you vs. the world, back the world. | |||
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. | |||
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed. | |||
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room. | |||
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. | |||
I'd never go to war, but I'd like to experience it if I knew I wasn't going to get hurt. | |||
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | * | ||
No one has ever bet enough on a winning horse. | * | ||
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. | |||
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. | * | ||
There's no substitute for guts. | |||
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The "sure thing" boat never gets far from shore. | |||
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. | |||
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. | |||
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. | |||
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. | |||
You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. | * | ||
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live. | |||
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. | |||
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. | * | ||
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. | * | ||
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already. | * | ||
He who hesitates is a damned fool. | |||
Murphy?s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. | |||
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. | |||
Orville Wright never had a pilot's license. | |||
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. | |||
The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese. | * | ||
The only unbecoming conduct would be my silence. | * | ||
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - from "The Road Not Taken" | |||
Avoid safety. The very word has a mean sound. | |||
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. | |||
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. | |||
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. | * | ||
Causing the right amount of trouble is an art form. | * | ||
Don\'t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. | |||
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. | |||
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. | |||
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